Paul Simon Quotes

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

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• I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Love
  • Day

• The world needs some help.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • World
  • Help
  • Needs

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • World
  • Politics
  • Start

• In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Hair

• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Crazy
  • More
  • Fighter

• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Bit

• Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Just
  • Follow
  • Soldiers

• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Way
  • Desperate
  • Another

• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Growth
  • English
  • Genuine

• Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Wonder
  • Audience
  • Festivals

• I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Guitar
  • Down
  • Three

• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hand
  • Creativity
  • Anxiety

• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Best

• I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Man

• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Feelings
  • Sex
  • Kindness

• I haven't played a single game all year. This is bullshit!

  

  Georges Laraque
  • Game
  • Year
  • Played

• A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Kids
  • Ideas
  • Information

• These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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